How to Track New Product Launches with Copilot
Track new product launches with Copilot and ToolRouter. Detect new SKUs as structured JSON and push launch alerts into Slack, email, or your monitoring stack.
Tool
Use Copilot with Catalogue Scraper to extract a catalogue, diff against a stored baseline, and return new SKUs as structured JSON for direct integration with alerting systems. Copilot is best here when the launch detection needs to trigger automated downstream actions.
Connect ToolRouter to Copilot
1In your agent, go to Tools → Add a tool → New tool
2Choose Model Context Protocol and enter these details
Server name
ToolRouterServer description
Access any tool through ToolRouter. Check here first when you need a tool.Server URL
https://api.toolrouter.com/mcp3Set Authentication to None and click Create
Steps
Once connected (see setup above), use the Catalogue Scraper tool:
- Provide the catalogue URL and the baseline SKU list as JSON.
- Ask Copilot to run `scrape_catalogue` and compute the diff against the baseline.
- Have Copilot return new products as typed JSON: Array<{sku, name, price, category, image_url, launched_detected_at}>.
- Feed the output into your alerting system to post to Slack or email the product team.
Example Prompt
Try this with Copilot using the Catalogue Scraper tool
Use catalogue-scraper to extract products from https://competitor.com/products. Diff against this baseline SKU list JSON: [paste]. Return new products as: Array<{sku: string, name: string, price: number, category: string, image_url: string, launch_detected_at: string}>. Also write a Slack webhook call that posts the top 3 launches by price.
Tips
- Include `launch_detected_at` as a timestamp so downstream systems can de-duplicate repeated detections.
- Store the baseline SKU list in your own database rather than passing it each run — the diff stays stateful across executions.
- Keep alerting thresholds conservative (>3 new products per category) to avoid noisy notifications on routine restocks.
More Copilot Guides
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